UPDATE September 2020: In order to rescue literary lost souls from publishing Purgatory, Jonathan P. Thompson is launching Lost Souls … More
Author: Jonathan P. Thompson
Journalist, editor and writer focusing on the Western United States and its landscapes, communities, and cultures. Creator of Land Desk. Author of "River of Lost Souls: The Science, Politics, and Greed Behind the Gold King Mine Disaster" (Torrey House Press 2018), "Behind the Slickrock Curtain" (Lost Souls Press 2020), and the forthcoming "Sagebrush Empire: A journey into the heart of the public land wars" (Torrey House 2021).
OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE: The Sacred and the Revolution (by Ian M. Thompson, 1975)
Editor’s Note: While going through a bunch of my father’s old writing, I came across a copy of the Deep … More
About that “drilling surge”…
The U.S. Department of Interior recently sent out a flurry of press releases announcing a major upswing in energy development … More
Still Life with Skull, and a virtual gallery
Over the last few weeks I’ve been uploading dozens — okay, almost 200 — photos and pictures that I’ve made … More
The botched BLM move West
Four months ago — much to the consternation of many of my devoted readers and the delight of a few … More
Images from Utah’s (crowded) national parks
They walked four abreast down the paved walkway toward me, and had I not squeezed out of the way the … More
Fine art prints of my photos and “paintings” for sale
I’ve been a photographer for a long time, and a digital “painter” for a little while. But it’s never really … More
Methane madness and economic anxiety in northwest New Mexico
The meeting room was packed with people, many of them wearing the “I Stand With Oil And Gas” t-shirts that … More
Some recent work (digital painting)
Industry’s strange and terrible beauty
A quick look at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory map for the nation reveals a startling fact: The … More
Jonathan P. Thompson 